Some of these albums are known just when you see their album cover. They are usually iconic albums (whether positively or negatively) and one can easily identify them even if they were zoomed out tons in any place.

Please contribute to this list by suggesting albums you think have iconic covers. Comments are appreciated.

1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

4.AC/DC - Back In Black

5.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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1.High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

2.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

3.Greymachine - Disconnected

4.Kylesa - Static Tensions

5.Profetus - Coronation Of The Black Sun

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Slayer - Reign In Blood

3.Sodom - Agent Orange

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

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Metal albums from 1980.

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

4.Def Leppard - On Through The Night

5.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

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1.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

4.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

5.Accept - Restless And Wild

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1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

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*** READ ME *** This list is about the greatest metal albums of all-time, from all sub-genres and all countries. You won't see bands like Deep Purple, Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, etc., nor will you see bands like Tool, Rage ATM, Melvins and Soundgarden. While I love many of those bands, my definition of metal does not include them.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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1.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

2.Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

3.Saxon - Wheels Of Steel

4.Judas Priest - British Steel

5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Rush - 2112

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Yes, I put Motörhead's most famous album on the list, only because people need to listen to some of their newer (Motörizer) or older (Overkill, Bomber, On Parole) material.

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Dio - Holy Diver

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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No Real Order, just Great Albums!

1.Dio - Holy Diver

2.Metallica - Kill 'Em All

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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Limited to two albums per band a work in progress.

1.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

2.Heavenwood - Diva

3.Skyclad - The Answer Machine?

4.Moonsorrow - Suden Uni

5.Moonspell - Wolfheart

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